Doris Schartinger is an Economist and works as a scientist in the Center for Innovation Systems and Policy at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). She has been involved in a number of research projects ranging from theoretical and empirical studies of innovation, and on questions of technology management and technology strategy at the firm level, to managerial and policy dimensions of these issues. Recent projects concentrated on social innovation in environment and climate change, health as well as food (SI Drive, Fit4Food), social enterprises and their collaborations (EASME) and public-private networks associated with social innovation (ServPPIN, PHS). She has worked in a number of research projects for different clients including various Austrian Ministries, the OECD and the European Commission.